2,414 holiday recipes

Soft, cakey cranberry drop cookies loaded with whole fresh cranberries, walnuts, and a touch of lemon juice. Makes 3 dozen festive holiday cookies with a tender crumb.

Move over sweet potato casserole loaded in brown sugar and dripping with butter. This savory paleo alternative will wow family and friends at any holiday meal.

Chocolate nutmeg cake roll with a light sponge wrapped around a silky chocolate-nutmeg mousse filling and topped with handmade chocolate leaves. An elegant holiday dessert.

This is a wonderful and light dessert to offer people as a contrast to the heavy holiday meals and desserts normally offered at this time.

A boozy coffee punch with Kahlua, vanilla ice cream, and whipped cream that serves 14 from one batch. This crowd-pleasing holiday drink comes together in minutes with no cooking required.

Patty Ann's cheese cake tarts: bite-size cream cheese pastry shells with two fillings, pecan and coconut. Muffin-tin desserts for holiday cookie trays.

Golden Delicious apple pie spiked with dark rum, brown sugar, and chopped nuts under a lattice crust. Served warm with a buttery rum sauce for a holiday-worthy showpiece.

Hungarian-style cream cheese triangles (kiflis) with a tender pastry dough wrapped around prune butter or fruit jam, baked golden, and dusted with powdered sugar. A classic holiday cookie tin staple.

Roasted chicken with apricots braised in white wine, thyme, and paprika. A classic Jewish-style holiday main with sweet-savory pan sauce and tender carrots and onions underneath.

Italian frangipane custard with ground almonds, cooked like pastry cream then cut into squares. Traditional holiday treat similar to Turkish delight in texture.

Bite-sized phyllo crackers filled with spinach, goat cheese, shallots, and nutmeg, shaped like Christmas crackers and baked golden. A festive holiday appetizer you can make ahead.

Chocolate mint squares with fudgy pecan-studded brownie base and a creme de menthe buttercream frosting. A retro church cookbook classic with serious holiday party vibes.

Crispy fried lemon rosette cookies made on a traditional rosette iron, dusted with powdered sugar. Lacy, paper-thin Scandinavian-style cookies that shatter under the first bite. A holiday classic.

Kentucky Kernels fold chopped pecans into a bourbon-and-butter sugar cream, dropped by spoonfuls and chilled into bite-size Southern candies. A 4-ingredient holiday treat.

Three-ingredient pretzel turtles with mini pretzels, Rolo or chocolate caramel candies, and toasted pecan halves. Easy no-fail sweet-and-salty holiday treat ready in 15 minutes.

Slow cooker pork loin braised in fresh cranberries, honey, and orange zest with warm hints of clove and nutmeg. A hands-off holiday-flavored crockpot dinner that practically cooks itself.